Chapter 12 - Simple Farm, Start Farming
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nMcgee opened the community. At this time, in addition to apples, some of the listings were meat products.
nBut almost all of the trading items were fish and even dead fish meat!
nFresh fish x 1
nPrice: Wood x 5, or Stone x 5.
nStranded dead fish x 1
nPrice: Wood x 2, or Stone x 2.
nBut Mcgee had no shortage of food, so he was not very interested in these things.
nLooking at other things in the community, they were all a mess and not very useful.
nBecause of the uncertainties now, Mcgee was looking for a crop that had a high survival rate, was easy to manage, and had a short growth cycle, and the yield had to be as high as possible.
nAt this moment, Mcgee finally saw a seed.
nWild rice seed × 1
nPoor quality rice seeds that have not been selected and bred. The yield is not high. Planting requires water near the farm.
nAfter Mcgee finished reading the detailed information on the rice, he shook his head helplessly.
nThere would not be enough yield of wild rice if he bought this, and harvesting it would be troublesome. Moreover, Mcgee could not waste a lot of time shelling the rice to make it edible.
nMcgee was a little disappointed and turned a few pages. At this time, Mcgee suddenly found that someone was selling sweet potato vines!
nSweet potato vines x 100
nPrice: Meat x 5, or Wood x 25.
nDescription: I found this thing in the wild grass. Pay attention! This thing cannot be eaten! The sweet potatoes can be eaten, but the leaves will give you diarrhea and nausea! Once sold, they are not refundable!
nAfter Mcgee saw it, he immediately traded it for five portions of mutton and bought the vines of these sweet potatoes.
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"System Notification: Successfully purchased sweet potato vines x 100, deducted mutton x 5.
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nAfter Mcgee saw that he had successfully bought them, his confidence in the following grain cultivation increased greatly.
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"This person suffered a loss without common sense!
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nMcgee sighed.
nMost of the sweet potatoes were not grown with their roots.
nThat was because the price was too high.
nMost of the sweet potatoes were grown with their vines.
nMoreover, sweet potatoes were expensive in large quantities.
nApart from being used as seeds, the vines could also be used to feed livestock.
nMcgee could not wait to take out the sweet potato vines from his inventory to examine them carefully.
nThen he divided the sweet potato vines into small segments.
nAfter about half an hour, Mcgee finished sorting them all.
nNext was planting.
nThe planting of sweet potatoes was very simple, as long as one end of the vines was stuffed into the soil.
nThe sweet potato vines were very tenacious. As long as it was not a continuous drought, it could basically survive.
nThe soil of the newly-opened farmland was very soft.
nMcgee found a stick and gently inserted it into the soil, making a small hole.
nThen, he stuffed the sweet potato vines into the soil and compacted the soil, and it was considered a success.
nAlthough the work was straightforward.
nBut it had to be done with a bent back. So when Mcgee planted all the sweet potatoes on the 20 square meters of land, Mcgee's back was basically no longer straight.
nLooking at some of the unused sweet potato leaves, Mcgee thought it would be good to have livestock not to be wasted.
nSpeaking of which, Mcgee suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen a lucky person selling piglets just now!
nMcgee opened the community and looked up. Sure enough, he saw someone selling a litter of piglets.
nCharging piglets x 10.
nPrice: Any meat x 50.
nDescription: I stole these piglets one by one when the charging pigs were not paying attention. No bargaining!
nThey could eat grass, but they were very restless and had a little bit of attack power. Killing them now would not yield any meat!
nTo not attract the charging piglets' mother, I have been keeping them in my thatched house for the past few days. As a result, my home has become a pigsty. It stinks terribly, and it snores at night!
nAfter reading the introduction, Mcgee still did not waver in his decision to buy them.
nHence, he quickly placed an order and bought them.
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"System Notification: You have successfully purchased charging piglet x 10. Deducting meat x 50.
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nAfter Mcgee's purchase, there were only about 300 pieces of meat left in the inventory.
nWhile he was lost in thought, he suddenly heard a series of howls from his wooden house.
nMcgee quickly ran back to the wooden house to take a look.
nInside the wooden house, ten gray piglets were rampaging inside. The entire wooden house was in a mess.
nMcgee had a helpless look on his face. He had forgotten that living things could not be stored in the inventory.
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"It seems that I can only continue to solve the problem of the pigsty now.
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nHowever, Mcgee did not have the blueprints for the pigsty.
nHowever, after looking at the stones and wood in the inventory, Mcgee suddenly had an idea.
nHe saw Mcgee come to the other side of the wooden house. There were few trees here, and his field of vision was relatively wide.
nAfter walking around, Mcgee chose three trees that were close to each other and then began to work.
nMcgee took out three pieces of wood and placed them in the middle of the tree trunks.
nThen he found some vines in the bushes and tied the wood between the trunks.
nSuch a simple triangular pigsty was formed.
nMcgee took out some stone and built a stone wall along with the wood to make the pigsty stronger.
nAfter working for half a day, Mcgee looked at his masterpiece and said with satisfaction,
"It looks pretty good!
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nAfter saying that, Mcgee ran back to the wooden house.
nHe carried the piglets into the pigsty one by one.
nThe ear-piercing sound of pigs being slaughtered rose and fell.
nAt this time, it was already evening.
nOn the mountain in the west, the red sun was slowly falling.
nMcgee leaned against the pigsty and looked at the piglets inside. He looked satisfied as he munched on the sweet potato leaves.
nIn the distant farmland, the newly planted sweet potatoes were swaying gently in the evening wind.
nMcgee was already fantasizing about his leisurely life in the future.
nThe sweet potato leaves and small sweet potatoes would be used as feed for the piglets in the future.
nAfter the piglets ate the feed, their feces could be used as manure and transferred to the farmland again.
nThis was like a perpetual motion machine!
nWhen he came back to his senses, Mcgee waved to the little Spirit Fox playing with the butterflies in the distance.
nThe little Spirit Fox immediately ran over with a skip.
nMcgee looked at the little Spirit Fox's condition and said to it,
"Go there and release your skill, the power of nature!
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nAfter the little Spirit Fox heard this, it immediately ran all the way to the edge of the farm.
nThen, its emerald green tail began to sway gently.
nA gentle breeze blew past, and a drizzle immediately began to fall around the little Spirit Fox.
nBecause the farm was not too far away from the pigsty, Mcgee was also enveloped in it.
nThe drizzle that kept falling carried a sweet taste and moistened the earth.
nThe sweet potatoes, which had been wilted by the sun, suddenly became tall and full of energy.
nSome of the sweet potato vines even sprouted new shoots.
nThe little piglets did not howl. Instead, they gathered together and lay on the ground quietly as if they had fallen asleep.
nThis was a peace that belonged only to Mcgee.
nSo far, only Mcgee had begun this completely self-sufficient life.
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